Word: cinching
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...Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a film version of the 1950 Broadway hit play (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950) about a reformed drunk and his sluttish wife, starring Shirley Booth, who appears to be a cinch for a best-actress nomination (see below...
...large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider, who spins over his sty such complimentary words as SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT and HUMBLE. The farmer is so impressed by these magic signs...
Belts can be decorated and dressed up or down at the whim of the inventive manufacturer. Brass fittings are still the most popular, and range from the simple buckle-and-eyelet on the classic leather belt to the most elaborate of emblems. Nailheads on the strict elastic cinch are the most straight-forward decorative shape. Heraldic emblems are still popular, and vary in size from an inch diameter to giant encrustations of spurious coats-of-arms. A gleaming creation that is not strictly a cinch at all but a development of the Mexican concha-style is the belt made entirely...
...width of the cinch is again a matter for the wearer's taste and depends in great part on her physical build. A very wide belt on a short-waisted girl can make her appear to be looking at you over the back of an overstuffed chair, and conversely a too narrow belt can be lost on the lithe and rangy. An extremely tight cinch on a girl broad below the belt can give a built-in crinoline effect with a full skirt which is not necessarily unpleasing, and which could bear watching. A tight cinch with a sweater, however...
...shape of a belt bears little relation to degree of formality but can often have a transforming effect on the wearer's figure if she chooses the shape with careful attention to her good points. A plain cinch of uniform width on a short and chubby girl can be disastrously unappealing, since a wide fabric belt has a tendency to curl over at the edges. Many girls would do well to choose a shaped belt that tapers off and widens at strategic places, playing up the slender areas and playing down the padded ones. There is even a new invention...